Jaya Pataka Swami answers questions about devotional practice: whether to accept food from other devotees, how to help suffering people reconnect with Krishna, why a spiritual master's criticism matters, and the proper way to touch a guru's feet.
Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj, please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet. Guru Maharaj, my question is for Mahaprashad. Like he had Mahaprasad of all the Vaishnavas and then he got the mercy of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. So even for us, is it okay to have Mahaprasnada of all the Vaishnavas?
No hard and fast rules.
No hard and fast rules. Once.
Mahaprashad will be.
So. I remember that. Okay, Once I remember that someone was taking the Mahapa shot from all the guests.
Allah said to take from the aics.
Srila Prabhupada said you should take from the devotees. Oh, if you take from new people and you get sick, it's not auspicious. Be a little selective.
My question is there's so many people suffering in this world. They don't exactly know why mentally. And so they go to different therapists, they try to receive different help because they don't really know what they're going through. How can we connect them back to Krishna.
That we have descended?
Lord Chaitanya told Lord Nityananda that we have ascended to deliver four kinds of.
People who normally don't get delivered.
Who normally don't get delivered. And one of those are those who are suffering.
Lord Chaitanya and come take them all back to Godhead so we.
Can preach and let them know that Lord Chaitanya has descended to take them all back to Godhead and to give them ecstatic love for Ka which will end their suffering.
Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj, please assert my.
Respectful obeisance at your lotus feet.
My question is last week your quotation of the day on May 18 was actually to get chastised by the spiritual master is a higher blessing than to get praise. Praise actually is not good. Could you please share a bit more about that?
Sardiya.
Is that in the verse today.
Actions might be worse today question should.
Be especially on the verse. For the verse today, if anyone has a doubt or question, try to keep it on the verse today. Otherwise it will open up on verses on questions for practically anything. I chastise youe question Now I answered your question. How do you feel? How do you feel? Frustrated Dhanvats Madhav Rajanathru just paid his frustrated Danubatsu Gurumaj Guru Maharaj, thank you so much again for this wonderful class on Caitanya's Leela. And I just had a small question regarding the dust of the lotus feet of the pure devotee. Often we are encouraged to touch the lotus feet of the pure devotee, especially our Gurudevs. But then we see that like when Guru Maharaj goes to public places, it's. It's not encouraged to let other people touch the lotus feet of Guru Maharaj. So could you just give a little insight? Why is that distinction given? Or should we also be careful to.
Breathe up? Then they give their karma to you.
You see, when someone touches your feet, they give their karma to you.
That's the Home Minister of Bengal.
So he wants the Home Minister of Bengal who is in charge of all the police.
He went and put his head on.
Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet.
He went and put his head on Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet. Brahmananda wanted to go and punch him. Prabhupada said. Prabhupada went and stopped him. He said it's their culture and.
It.
Would have been a big mess to punch the Home Minister. So there's different circumstances.
You see that some people touch the feet of the.
We see that some people, they want to touch the feet of the Guru.
They touch of him.
They would touch and he would touch them on the head. That's kind of like giving them back the karma. But it's also they are taking a blessing.
Sometimes the way devotees.
May be too much.
So sometimes the way devotees prohibit people may be too much. See the situation. You have to see the situation.
I saw that in South India in places, ladies would pour the water and the husband would.
Touch the feet.
So I saw that in South India and different places, the lady would pour the water and the husband would touch the lotus feet.
That lady shouldn't touch a sannyasi.
That lady shouldn't touch a sannyasi.
There are a lot of water, but.
They'Re allowed to pour the water. So that was a system. Apparently that was the practice when Lord Chaitanya visited South India. The wife would pour the water and the husband would massage it. And it's very late now. Hare ka.
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